[`A barbe de fol hardi rasoir:] [Prov.] The razor may boldly graze on a fooles beard.
[`A barbe de fol le rasoir est mol:] [Prov.] A foole brookes any disgrace; A foole's not sensible of any wrong.
[`A barbe de fol on apprend à raire:] [Prov.] By shauing a foole one learnes to shaue.
[`A barbe de fol on apprend à raire:] [Prov.] [By trimming fooles about the gill, a Barbers prentise learns his skill; or, by doing a thing ill one learns to doe much better; vnseemelie presidents are warnings to the wise.]

[Bonne iourné e fait qui de fol se delivre:] [Pro.] he does an excellent dayes work that rids himselfe of a foole.
[Bonne iourné e fait qui de fol se delivre:] [Prov.] He does a good dayes worke that gets cleere of a foole.
[Bonne iourné e fait qui de fol se delivre:] [Prov.] [He does a good dayes worke that rids his hands of a foole.]

[C'est folie de manger cerises avec son seigneur:] [Prov.] No wise man will be very familier with one that is much better, or mightier than himselfe; besides, hee that eates cherries with his master gets not many good ones.

[Courtes folies sont les meilleures:] [Prov.] Short follies are the best; or, the best of a fond act is the shortnesse of it; or, follies the lesse while they last the more they are to be borne with.
[Courtes folies sont les meilleures:] [Prov.] [The shortest follies are the best; (and thereof may the next Prouerbe be vnderstood;)] [Le plus bref est le meilleur:] [Prov.] [The shorter the better.]

[Fol est qui de son poing faict coing:] [Prov.] He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist; [as did strong Milo; who attempting to riue assunder a great tree which lay in a forest halfe clouen, and held open with wedges, they slipping downe it closed, and inclosed his hands so fast, that he could not pull them out, but quickly became a pray vnto wild beasts; whereupon this prouerb calls any man foole, that presumes too much on his owne strength, or knowes not the right vse of his owne things.)]
[Fol est qui de son poing fait coing:] [Prov.] He is an asse that presumes too much on his owne strength, or knowes not the right vse of his owne things.

[Fol est qui se coupe de son propre cousteau:] [Pro.] He is an asse that hurts himself with his own helps; or, abuses his owne good parts to his owne destruction.

[Fol est qui se fie en eau endormie:] [Prov.] Men of a still, sad, sleepie, melancholicke disposition are not to be relyed on; for either they can doe little, or that which they doe is full of trecherie, and dissimulation.

[Fol est qui s'enyvre de sa propre bouteille:] [Prov.] Of the same sence; or, he is an asse thats besotted on his owne good parts.

[Fol ne croit iusques à tant qu'il reç oit:] [Prov.] The foole beleeues not till he do receiue (the whole fruit of his owne hopes, or of other mens promises.)

[Le Chanteau part le vilain:] [Pro.] [When villeines by birth or estate (who for the most part are tenants in common) doe meane to part their possessions, they diuide a lumpe of bread, and giue each to other a peece thereof; Hence is this Prouerb applyable to those base fooles, that fall out with their best friends for trifles, or victualls.]

[Le fol cerche son malheur:] [Prov.] The foole indeuors to make himselfe vnhappie; or, the foole studies his owne mishap.

[Mettez fol à par soy il pensera:] [Prov.] Leaue a foole alone, and he will bethinke himselfe (what he hath to doe.)
[Mettez fol à par soy, il pensera:] [Prov.] Leaue a foole to himselfe, and he will thinke, or (perhaps) make an end of the matter.

[Pour vn poil Martin perdit son asne:] [Pro.] [The punishment, or taxation of those that vpon a small occasion enter into a great contention; as this poore man did, who laying a wager that his asse was all white, was shewed a blacke haire on him, and so, like an asse, lost his asse, which was the wager.]
[Pour vn poinct Martin perdit son asne:] [Prov.] A small omission, or error may turne a man to much preiudice;
[Pour vn poinct Martin perdit son Asne:] [Prov.] [(This Martin being Abbot of a Cloister called Asellus, and setting ouer the Gate thereof, Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto, was depriued of his Place for putting a Comma after the word nulli.)]

[Qui commet affaire à vn fol s'appreste à le suyvre:] [Prov.] (Least hee wish hee had gone about it himselfe; also), he that imployes a foole may follow him for companie; for wise men vse to imploy wise men.

[Qui de mastin fait son compere plus de baston ne doit porter:] [Pro.] [He that will conuerse with clowns, must passe by rudenesse without frownes.]
[Qui de mastin fait son compere plus de baston ne doit porter:] [Prov.] [He that makes a mastiue his gossip need not carrie a cudgell about him.]
[Qui de mastin fait son compere plus de baston ne doit porter:] [Prov.] He thats in league with a churle hath no need of a cudgell.

[Si le fol ne folie il perd sa saison:] [Prov.] A foole is most absurd when he playes not the foole.
[Si le fol ne folie il perd sa saison:] [Prov.] [A foole not fooling is much out of date;] or, a foole is most, when he playes least, the foole.
[Si le fol ne folie il perd sa saison:] [Prov.] A foole that would seeme wise is most vnseasonable; or, the foole is most fustie when he is least foolish.

[Tout est perdu ce qu'on donne à fol:] [Pro.] All that is giuen to a foole is cast away; [(whereupon some Critick will perhaps conclude, that all the labour bestowed on this word hath been misbestowed.)]
[Tout est perdu ce qu'on donne à fol:] [Prov.] [All thats bestowed on fooles is cast away.]
[Tout est perdu ce qu'on donne à fol:] [Prov.] Whatsoeuer is giuen to fooles is lost: for either they are simple and cannot, or vngratefull and will not, requite it.

[Vn fol vn enragé:] [Prov.] Once a foole, euer a mad man; or, he that hath played the foole once, will, ere he leaue, play the mad man.
[Vn fol vn enragé:] [Prov.] Once a foole euer madde; or there's little difference between a foole & a madde man.